Cameron Mckenzie
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Mckenzie is a Principal Engineer with over 12 years of experience building resilient, highly available systems, now leading architecture and delivery at Atlassian from Hobart, Tasmania. A long-time Apache Curator committer and PMC member, he has directly improved ZooKeeper client stability and leader election logic used by distributed systems worldwide. Prior to Atlassian he spent two decades designing Telco-grade architectures at Unico, giving him deep expertise in reliability, connection handling, and operational robustness. Cameron combines hands-on backend engineering with pragmatic system design and mentors teams to production-grade standards. An RMIT computer science graduate, he brings a rare mix of open-source stewardship and enterprise-grade engineering practice.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Viewbank Secondary CollegeBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyBanyule High School
Github Skills (8)
javas10
exception-handling10
leader-election10
apache-curator10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
java10
concurrency10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/curator
Jun 2014 - Jul 2021
Apache Curator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 133 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cameron contributed to the core functionality of the Apache Curator project, specifically by introducing new methods for connection handling and improving the LeaderLatch recipe. They modified the CuratorFramework to expose a `blockUntilConnected` method and refactored the leader election logic. Additionally, the user made improvements to exception handling within the operation queue and fixed connection notifications to accurately signal connected states. These changes indicate efforts to enhance stability and reliability of the Zookeeper client.
zookeeperconsensusapache-curatorapachebig-data
cammckenzie/cellular-automata
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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